An anonymous man appearing in an ApexTV video has claimed to be a time traveller who visited the year 3311, presenting three photographs as evidence of his journey. The man kept his identity hidden with a blurred face and distorted voice, yet insisted his account was genuine.
Addressing the camera for the YouTube channel ApexTV, the time traveller presented three photographs, which he claimed he captured during a mission to the year 3311. He said he possessed an "extremely interesting story" to share, a tale concerning both his past and his future.
Photos Presented as Proof
The man said: "What I am telling you is true and I even have the evidence to prove it." He subsequently revealed three photographs depicting what our world allegedly resembles nearly 1,300 years from now.
The initial peculiar image seemingly displays a futuristic metropolis constructed upon some kind of floating platform suspended in the heavens. The time traveller explained: "This was not the only picture I took in the future.
"I got into the teleportation machine again but this time it brought me to a very different place and I took a picture of that place as well. Let me show you that picture."
He then produced a photograph of a structure, which he described as a standard dwelling in the distant future. His final image showed a flying craft soaring above various houses and vegetation.
Claims of a Secret Mission
According to the time traveller, he captured the images following his selection to participate in a classified time travel mission during the 1990s. He claimed his selection was largely down to his achievements at school in the field of computer development.
He claimed that the mysteries of time travel had been unlocked through the enigmatic application of quantum computing. He said: "I can't say the name of that organisation but I can assure you that organisations like the one I'm describing, and many many more, not only exist but are carrying out secret programmes behind closed doors."
Images Revealed as Manipulations
Nevertheless, all three images provided by the alleged time traveller are skilful manipulations of existing photographs, designed to appear as though they originate from the future. The first image is a doctored version of a mountain forest valley wallpaper found on the website 7-themes.com with a hovering metropolis superimposed onto it.
The second image is in fact a modified photograph of the Antilia building, which serves as the private residence of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani in South Mumbai, India. Several viewers who watched the footage saw right through the ruse and exposed ApexTV in the comments section.
YouTube user Mike Mathieu said: "These 'pictures' look about as real as Japanese animation." Vignesh Baidu added: "Next time at least take a selfie so that we can clarify it's not photoshopped."
And Richard Labeja wrote: "The pictures look fake, especially the floating city. There perspectives, lighting and contrast look severely inaccurate."
Expert Opinion on Time Travel
Is it feasible for humans to journey through time? Not according to Professor William Hiscock from Montana State University, or at least not in the manner depicted in the ApexTV footage. The temporal physics expert explained that time-dilation effects permit people to advance through time but not retreat.
He said: "Time travel into the past, which is what people usually mean by time travel, is a much more uncertain proposition."
"There are many solutions to Einstein's equations of General Relativity that allow a person to follow a timeline that would result in her (or him) encountering herself - or her grandmother - at an earlier time. The problem is deciding whether these solutions represent situations that could occur in the real universe, or whether they are mere mathematical oddities incompatible with known physics."
